SOWK 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Elitism, Individualism
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Feudalism: peasants (known as the working class) which then leads to police officers, teachers, knights, nobles and lords (consisted of swords, and money), and then the king (who has power) It has started to make an impact in peoples choices in life: forces us to be consumers for things that we don"t even need, to get more and more. Ideology has a huge impact on the role of government and how we should play that into economic matters. When you think about ideology, think about solutions (of how this should be). When we talk about ideology we think about political. All the parties who run for election, have a view on how the world should run. Individualism we have a particular thinking about how individuals operate in society. Your freedom, and my freedom should be at the forefront of our society. It is about how you are worth, and you should be able to do what you wish.